George Sinnott

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Supreme Court rules that Trump’s sweeping emergency tariffs are illegal | CNN Politics The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that President Donald Trump violated federal law when he unilaterally imposed sweeping tariffs across the globe, a striking loss for the White House on an issue that ...

Potentially great news for the world economy... www.cnn.com/2026/02/20/p...

Don Quixote | Birmingham Royal Ballet In this first revival of his 2022 production Director Carlos Acosta delivers entertainment for all ages. Don Quixote introduces us to Cervantes’ famous kni

Absolute joy to watch #DonQuixote at the Birmingham Hippodrome last night. Really sensational performance! #BirminghamRoyalBallet are amazing. See it if you can. Don Quixote | Birmingham Royal Ballet share.google/AsJIzXsVBniF...

Love this. Outstanding work...

Amazing answer to a nonsense question.

Europe Is Now in Position to Replace U.S. Intelligence Support Within months, if required

Fascinating read: www.theconcis.com/p/europe-is-...

A good example of how strangely unpolitical this government is at times.
The Economist is fretting that trade union laws have been tilted (sharply!) back towards strengthening unions.
But is the government making an argument around this to progressive voters? No.

economist.com/britain/2026...

Blue Skies

Miles Kane in Birmingham tonight was great! Played Blue Skies which felt appropriate to share here! open.spotify.com/track/0MCRVv...

This is why Shakespeare is the greatest genius who ever lived. And this is just from a few pages he wrote in someone else's play.

It's kind of wild that the French foreign ministry has an official shitposting account.

Similar to the old adage of 'The problem with Communism was it was never done properly...' 😅

I quit X over a year ago now too and I've never regretted it.

We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the intimidation and interference at a Berlin polling station from our apartment window above.

starting to wonder if there might be some downside to the most senior people who cover the British government having no frame of reference beyond "westminster horserace", if I'm honest lads

What Europe could do is threaten to boycott the World Cup. It won't. But that might actually work. Trump wants his big show.

'Effectively all we are doing is turning criminals and perverts into X's paying customers'

Dame Caroline Dinenage, chair of the Media Select Committee, speaks to #BBCBreakfast after X limited the use of its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

🇩🇰 goal of keeping 🇬🇱 out of the headlines & avoiding megaphone diplomacy is over. They're leaning in - rightly

🇩🇰 PM: “I believe one should take the 🇺🇸 president seriously when he says he wants 🇬🇱. But if the US chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops, including NATO.”

Movie magic right here...

Very much love thy neighbour stuff here. Please give generously...

Is there anything more pointless than an online Christmas card from an organisation? Delete. Delete. Delete.

British government backs the BBC as Trump sues it for billions Stephen Kinnock said the public service broadcaster is “right to stick by their guns.”

The BBC is not just any other institution. It's a core part of this country's identity. It's ours to criticise, ours to get cross with, ours to love and ours to the end.

By attacking it Trump may actually be doing us all a favour as we are obliged to remember that.

www.politico.eu/article/brit...

Putin sits in Moscow claiming that his armies have taken a town that the Ukrainian president is personally visiting. There are cowardly tyrants and there are courageous elected leaders and it is good to know the difference.

It’s that time of year: what was the piece of writing about AI that stuck with you the most this year, pop press or academic? A few of mine in the thread. ⬇️

My annual post about how the Morning Star reported the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989

hatfulofhistory.com/2014/11/07/h...

Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.

When asked about Russia’s war in Ukraine, ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, DeepSeek, and xAI’s Grok all regularly cite Russian propaganda
www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

There is a serious, principled case for a codified constitution, for some of the reasons George sets out.

But botching together a constitution to stop Farage - a constitution that could not command widespread support and that was widely seen as rigged - would deepen our problems, not resolve them.🧵